Administration of Legal Affairs: Functions and Responsibilities

This administration undertakes the following responsibilities and functions:

1. Preparing and drafting the various contracts and agreements that the Council reaches with others, in coordination with the relevant authorities inside or outside the Council.

2. Issuing resolutions of accreditation certificates for academic institutions or programs after completing the granting procedures.

3. Preparing draft resolutions, following up issuing the final version, giving them number, and archiving the originals.

4. Providing legal advice to the leadership of the Council and its specialists, and providing them with copies of laws and decrees related to their tasks and responsibilities.

5. Representing the Council before the judiciary and other authorities in accordance with the State Law, and studying and following-up disagreements that may arise between the Council and other authorities regarding the rights and responsibilities of the Council in accordance with the legislation and laws in force.

6. Participation in the receipt of lands, facilities, real estate and property of the Council, keeping its documents and proving its ownership with the competent official authorities.

7. Studying cases and files of legal nature, following up on them, and providing legal advice on issues brought by different administrative units of the Council.

8. Reviewing the systems, decisions and regulations in force in the Council and raising appropriate proposals to develop them in coordination with the relevant authorities within the Council.

9. Working to spread legal awareness in the field of the Council's work responsibilities among the Council's employees and its affiliated units.

10. Any other tasks or duties required by the nature of its work or assigned to it by the Secretary-General.